A. Back ground:
Last sunday we reflected how to follow God's will, in a family environment. It allowed us to think more how to treat, disagreements deriving in a family. After you follow god's commandments, when disagreements still persist, you act as a floating element. This will allow you to understand God's Will,at subsequent stage(there is no other way that God can influence your decision otherwise)
Today it allows us to reflect, how to implement God's will personal to you.
Assume that you are following commandments given by father(10 commandments),Son pardoning +love, Holy spirit- church rules, and doing well, as a good catholic. How to find God's Will for you.
Today it will be analyses further! How to be an adaptable catholic?
What is there in my life that possess me more than Jesus does. What do I find impossible to give up?.
Not only,wealth,land,building, but wider meaning as food,alcohol,tobacco,
Today, church invited us to reflect, more deeper into our life, whether, we follow God's will or without our knowledge, we follow our own will, due to our sins caused by our own convenience.
B. Preamble to days readings:
B.1 Difference between ME and I
Am I my thoughts, the thoughts that I am thinking? No. Thoughts come and go. I am not my thoughts.
Am I my body? They tell us that millions of cells are changed or renewed every minute, so that by end of 7 years we don't have a single living cell in our body that was there 7 years before. Cells come and Go. Cells arise and die. But I seem to persist. So am I my body? Certainly not.
"I" is something other and more than the body. You might say body is part of "I". But it is changing part. It keeps moving, it keeps changing. We have the same name for it,but it constantly changes. Just we have the same name of Niagara Falls but it is constituted by water that is constantly changing. We use the same name for an ever changing reality!.
We begin 1st with things, with an awareness of things; then we move in to awareness of thoughts.(That is me); and finally we get to awareness of thinker. What we are really searching for is the thinker. Can thinker know himself?,Can I know what I is?.
How flexible you are to change your thoughts(from me), it is easy to identify"I".
B.2. St Francis Assisi's and pope Francis example:
St Francis, easily changed to sell all his wealth, to support poor, after understanding the meaning of life.
Francis was son of wealthy cloth merchant of Assisi/Italy.At the age of 20yrs,he was sick&
Changed his life,starting with charity among poor. He said"HE WHO SERVES POOR,SERVES CHRIST HIMSELF"One day he heard GOD "REPAIR MY HOUSE WHICH IS FALLING IN TO RUIN" Francis gladly surrendered his possessions & lived like a hermit!He pioneered Franciscans order & to adore Holy Babe, in1223 by making a crib-in a forest-cave with a live Ox&Ass. During his preaching,image of Babe in his arms was seen. 1224 he received Stigmata(5 wounds which risen Jesus had). At 44yrs he died4/10/1226& was canonised in1228.
Present 266thPope(Argentenian Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio/Jesuit76yrs)elected on19/3/2013,feast day of St Joseph,took suddenly name as Francis1& follows his footsteps,poor in character&repairing church!.He represent head of catholic church-Holy Spirit&guide you towards God Kingdom,for happiness now& future.
B.3 How to manage 5 senses
People have worldly passions which lead them into delusion and suffering. There are 5 ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions. They should have the correct ideas of things, based on the principles of creation!(Given by catholism).
Then they can get rid of these mistaken observations and resulting worldly passions by careful and patient mind control. With efficient mind control they can avoid desires arising from the stimulation of the eyes,ears,tongue,skin and subsequent mental processes and by so doing, cut off the very root of all worldly passions, which is not based on Holy Trinity's teachings.
There are 5 groups of desires in the world.
Desires arising
From the forms of the eyes- see
From the sounds the ears- hear
From the fragrances the nose- smells
From the tastes pleasant to tongue
From things that are agreeable to the sense of touch
FROM THESE 5 DOORS TO DESIRE COME THE BODIES OF LOVE OF COMFORT.
Most people, being influenced by the body's love of comfort, do not notice the evils that follow comfort(by craving into it) they are caught in the devil's trap like a deer in the forest caught in hunter's trap.
There is no one way to get free from the trap of worldly passions. Suppose you caught a snake, a crocodile, a bird, a dog, a fox and a monkey, 6 creatures of very different natures, and you tie them together with a strong rope and let them go. Each of these 6 creatures will try to go back to its own lair by its own method.
The snake will seek covering of grass, the crocodile will seek water, the bird will want to fly in the air, the dog will seek a villege, the fox will seek a solitary ledges,while monkey will seek the trees of the forest.
IN THE ATTEMPT OF EACH TO GO ITS OWN WAY THERE WILL BE A STRUGGLE,BUT, BEING TIED TOGETHER BY A ROPE, THE STRONGEST AT ANY ONE TIME WILL DRAG THE REST.
Like the creatures in this story, a man is tempted different ways by the desires of his 6 senses,EYES,EARS,NOSE,TONGUE,
If the 6 creatures are all tied to a post, they will try to get free until they are tired out, and then will lie down by the post. Just like this, if people will train and control the mind based on the commandments given by Father/Son and Holy spirit, there will be no further trouble from the other 5 senses. IF THE MIND IS UNDER CONTROL PEOPLE WILL HAVE HAPPINESS BOTH NOW AND FUTURE!.
Identify the rope for each desire in this example then tie that rope to Post of commandments of Holy Trinity, to see Happiness in this life too!.
B.4 Conditioning your self, too much, will be difficult for you to change!
Think about actions/comforts, that you cannot change? Identify, whether it is contravene to the commandments given by Trinity
Father- 10 Commandments:
Son-Pardoned others+ love your neighbour
Holy spirit- you should not form cast/ no artificial birth control/no abortion/no euthanasia/No divorce/...other sacraments+church rules.
Withdraw actions which contravene, then you are sure God's will come to you!.
C. Today's reading:
Book of wisdom says(Ws7:7-11) "..prayed..understanding..
Hebrew says(Heb 4:12-13) says"..word of God..alive..active..double edge sword..it can slip..joints from marrow..can judge emtions..thoughts..no created..hide..every thing uncovered.."
Mark says(Mk 10:17-30)"Jesus..what..I do..eternal life?"..you know.. commandments..I kept..one thing lack..sell everything..give..poor..his face fell..went.. sad..how hard..riches..enter..easer for a camel..eye of a needle..who..saved..men.. impossible..for God..possible..peter..us?.. jesus..left..my sake..will..repaid..100 times over..present..eternal.."
D. Conclusions: when God,personal call comes to us in the circumstances of our daily lives, may we have the vision and generosity to respond?.
Great worth of wisdom, which is insight into life's meaning, is knowing how to live.
God's word is living;it penetrates in to the core of our being and lays bare our inner most thoughts.
Salvation lies in observing the commandments, but Jesus says that to be perfect one must be prepared to give up one's most precious procession and follow Him.
GBU
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